TeachersFirst's Elementary School Brain Twisters

Week of September 21, 2018

1.Which is greatest? (20 points)

The number of years between the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address
The number of states with an "a" in their spelling
The number of stars on the U.S. flag in World War II
The number of minutes in an NFL game of regulation length.
The number of beats in ten measures of common time.

2.Portrait is to landscape as (5 points)

Obvious is to subtle
Frigid is to arctic
Vertical is to horizontal
Color is to darkness
Frog is to amphibian

3.Which sentence is correct? (10 points)

They still have princes in the British aisles.
Princes are the hairs to the throne.
None of the princes are very old.
The younger one is named Harry.
There father is Prince Charles

4.The reason bean bags sit but some SUVs roll over is related to their (5 points)

center of rotation
epicenter
center of gravity
center of operations
shopping center

5.Jim has twice as many baseball cards as Sam. Mike's collection has half as many as Sam's, but five of the cards are the same. If a dealer buys any card for 10 cents and Mike gets $1 for his collection, how much will Jim get? (20 points)

6.If you headed due north from Dallas, what state would you cross into first? (10 points)

Iowa
Oklahoma
Kansas
Louisiana
New Mexico

7.Which of these is not an invertebrate? (5 points)

a worm
plankton
a rabbit
amoeba
jellyfish

8.A famous southern U.S. set of "keys" is also (10 points)

A peninsula
An archipelago
A coastal plain
A plateau
An atoll

9.If you have 3 dollars, two quarters, and 8 dimes how much more money will you need to buy a cap that costs $6.75 (5 points)

$2.15
$2.50
$2.45
$3.45
$2.25

10.Someone just called you a "chip off the old block." That means (10 points)

You have a broken bone.
You have strong muscles.
You are stubborn.
You are like your parent.
You live in an old neighborhood.

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